A Case Study Of Pro-Nature Education In Kindergarten

According to the 2013 Survey report on Children’s Intimacy with Nature in Cities,12.4 percent of more than 1,300 children are prone to nature-deficit disorder,such as poor emotional regulation and adaptability to the environment,inattention and lack of curiosity about nature.The "China Child Development Report(2019)" shows that the outdoor activity time of kindergarten children outside school is only 48.31 minutes.According to the survey,the average American child spends less than 30 minutes of outdoor activities per week,and there is a trend of decreasing.It can be seen that the actual contact between young children and nature is not optimistic.The connection between young children and nature can have a positive effect on their psychological,physical and spiritual health,so it is of great significance to strengthen the connection between children and nature.Pronature education contributes to the high-quality interaction between children and nature.This study aims to explore the effective development of pro-nature education in case kindergartens,promote kindergartens to attach importance to and improve the quality of pro-nature education,and thus lay a foundation for the healthy growth of young children.This study selects Kindergarten A in Y County of F City as the research object,mainly using literature method,interview method,observation method and text analysis method.Inspect the current situation of A kindergarten’s pro-nature education.At the same time,through interviews,we learned that the material environment,principals,teachers and parents are the factors that affect the development of pro-nature education in Kindergarten A.Finally,this paper summarizes the experience of kindergarten As pro-nature education,and its main experiences are in five aspects: creating a relatively complete pro-nature education target system;mining rich pro-nature education content;adopting diverse pronature education implementation paths;The evaluation of pro-nature education;to create a real pro-nature educational environment.Based on this,this study puts forward five suggestions for kindergarten pro-nature education: improve teachers’ pro-nature education literacy;build a systematic pro-nature education target system;improve the effectiveness of pro-nature education implementation approaches;improve the evaluation of pro-nature education.